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" "" " " " " '"fJ J-J' unlv.edury JANUARY 16, 2001 TUESDAlEDlTION VOLUME 46, ISSUE 28 Lied Library debet impresses students TECHNOLOGY: Lied designed to utilize the latest advances By Aaron Clemens UNLV Rebel Yell Students using the $58 million Lied Library, which opened Jan. 8, gave only positive comments last week. "It is almost futuristic," said UNLV student Victoria Keisic Thursday. "It is really nice except you can't put your feet up on the furniture." Fellow student Laura Cascos found the set up really spacious. She also liked the idea of the eating area in the library. "It makes UNLV feel like a real college," she said. Ken Marks, dean of the UNLV libraries, said last week that he thinks the Book and Bean Cafe will be unbelievably popular. He also pointed out that this technologically cutting-edge library brings many advantages Rebs sanctioned, Bayno fired GOOD: Max Good ; takes helm of Rebels in wake of NCAA findings By Eric Leake UNLV Rebel Yell A Dec. 12 decision by the NCAA Committee on Infractions against UNLV, a decision the university is appealing, brought the firing of Runnin' Rebels coach Bill r ! 4. L il l l Mi mm 4 Bill Bayno Reassigned as camp coach Bayno and his replacement by former assistant coach Max Good. Bayno was fired as head basketball coach and later reassigned as assistant director for developments, special events and summer camps and clinics after the NCAA committee placed the men's basketball program on four years of probation and banned them from postseason play this season. Good, in his second year as assistant coach, took over as head coach for the remainder of the season. Good has over 30 years coaching experience, most notably as head coach at Maine Central Institute prep school where he compiled a 275-30 record, and quickly went on to lead the Rebels to a seven-game winning streak. The NCAA ruled against the university because of violations SEE REBS PAGE 7 Homeless burglar caught, life saved THIEF: Suspect with broken neck claims he found items in dumpster By Abel Rodriguez UNLV Rebel Yell Campus police collared a homeless man for burglarizing student's vehicles and ended up saving his life late last semester. Leading up to this incident, campus police had increased surveillance of university parking lots after a rash of car burglaries in mid-November. On Nov. 30, several officers responded to an auto burglary call. One student witness told police he saw a person, later identified as Thomas Grote, 40, SEE BURGLAR PAGE 2 i ......... i. . i ... . - i WrVfP 111 SCOUTS: ( r )fc Himmel asks why rvv IflFj gayness should be a IT 14 Problem for the BSA :'x'3 if it s not fr Judaism V ..' that are out of the reach of many other institutions. "Universities that have been in existence 150 to 200 years tend to have more branch libraries, but these get expensive," he said. "Quite often they are only open limited hours. A student can spend half a day just chasing down a book because the collection is dispersed across many locations with branch libraries." SEE LIED PAGE 3 iJ iu Max Good New Runnin' Rebels head coach I ' I MOVIE: "Finding Forrester" boasts excellent acting and resembles 1 J "Good Will Hunting" , - h v ; Jc i -L-i '.; L'.- I .pmnimmi . ( -' v f (in . ( j f. . ;, i i : . by Jummel Hidrosolo UNLV Rebel Yell Students Laura Cascos (left) and Victoria Keisic get busy on some of the more than 250 new computers in the Lied Library. Campus police nab armed trespasser WEAPONS: Search offormer student's car uncovers two guns By Abel Rodriguez UNLV Rebel Yell University police arrested Alonzo Fretwell for trespassing and possession of a firearm on campus Friday morning. Fretwell, who claims to be a 1997 UNLV graduate, had also been arrested Jan. 9 for disorderly conduct, according to police. Detective Kevin Youngflesh and Officer James Kettner initially apprehended Fretwell for trespassing but discovered two guns during a routine search of Fretwell's vehicle, according to Youngflesh. When Fretwell was arrested Tuesday, he was found with his shirt off, Youngflesh said, and the arresting officers thought Fretwell might have been under the influence of narcotics.Youngflesh said that prior to Fretwell's first arrest, campus police had received reports that a man fitting his description harassed professors from the chemistry building. The police issued a notice to Fretwell, banning him from campus and released him Tuesday, but then rearrested him near the chemistry building Friday. SEE STALKER PAGE 2 One-third of Millennium Scholars lose eligibility By Aaron Clemens UNLV Rebel Yell Almost one out of every three Millennium Scholars attending UNLV failed to meet the minimum requirements of earning at least 12 credits with -a 2.0 grade point average after the first semester of the program. Students who failed to meet the minimum requirements will be ineligible for the $1,000 per semester. scholarship this spring and will have to pay back funds already received if they want to reenroll in the program. UNLV had the lowest retention rate of Millennium Scholars with 68 percent, or 988 of the SEE SCHOLAR PAGE 8 - - - - - I I ROCKY: . ' , UNLV Jazz Director Rocky Winslow , keeps it laid-back in x ; the classroom

" "" " " " " '"fJ J-J' unlv.edury JANUARY 16, 2001 TUESDAlEDlTION VOLUME 46, ISSUE 28 Lied Library debet impresses students TECHNOLOGY: Lied designed to utilize the latest advances By Aaron Clemens UNLV Rebel Yell Students using the $58 million Lied Library, which opened Jan. 8, gave only positive comments last week. "It is almost futuristic," said UNLV student Victoria Keisic Thursday. "It is really nice except you can't put your feet up on the furniture." Fellow student Laura Cascos found the set up really spacious. She also liked the idea of the eating area in the library. "It makes UNLV feel like a real college," she said. Ken Marks, dean of the UNLV libraries, said last week that he thinks the Book and Bean Cafe will be unbelievably popular. He also pointed out that this technologically cutting-edge library brings many advantages Rebs sanctioned, Bayno fired GOOD: Max Good ; takes helm of Rebels in wake of NCAA findings By Eric Leake UNLV Rebel Yell A Dec. 12 decision by the NCAA Committee on Infractions against UNLV, a decision the university is appealing, brought the firing of Runnin' Rebels coach Bill r ! 4. L il l l Mi mm 4 Bill Bayno Reassigned as camp coach Bayno and his replacement by former assistant coach Max Good. Bayno was fired as head basketball coach and later reassigned as assistant director for developments, special events and summer camps and clinics after the NCAA committee placed the men's basketball program on four years of probation and banned them from postseason play this season. Good, in his second year as assistant coach, took over as head coach for the remainder of the season. Good has over 30 years coaching experience, most notably as head coach at Maine Central Institute prep school where he compiled a 275-30 record, and quickly went on to lead the Rebels to a seven-game winning streak. The NCAA ruled against the university because of violations SEE REBS PAGE 7 Homeless burglar caught, life saved THIEF: Suspect with broken neck claims he found items in dumpster By Abel Rodriguez UNLV Rebel Yell Campus police collared a homeless man for burglarizing student's vehicles and ended up saving his life late last semester. Leading up to this incident, campus police had increased surveillance of university parking lots after a rash of car burglaries in mid-November. On Nov. 30, several officers responded to an auto burglary call. One student witness told police he saw a person, later identified as Thomas Grote, 40, SEE BURGLAR PAGE 2 i ......... i. . i ... . - i WrVfP 111 SCOUTS: ( r )fc Himmel asks why rvv IflFj gayness should be a IT 14 Problem for the BSA :'x'3 if it s not fr Judaism V ..' that are out of the reach of many other institutions. "Universities that have been in existence 150 to 200 years tend to have more branch libraries, but these get expensive," he said. "Quite often they are only open limited hours. A student can spend half a day just chasing down a book because the collection is dispersed across many locations with branch libraries." SEE LIED PAGE 3 iJ iu Max Good New Runnin' Rebels head coach I ' I MOVIE: "Finding Forrester" boasts excellent acting and resembles 1 J "Good Will Hunting" , - h v ; Jc i -L-i '.; L'.- I .pmnimmi . ( -' v f (in . ( j f. . ;, i i : . by Jummel Hidrosolo UNLV Rebel Yell Students Laura Cascos (left) and Victoria Keisic get busy on some of the more than 250 new computers in the Lied Library. Campus police nab armed trespasser WEAPONS: Search offormer student's car uncovers two guns By Abel Rodriguez UNLV Rebel Yell University police arrested Alonzo Fretwell for trespassing and possession of a firearm on campus Friday morning. Fretwell, who claims to be a 1997 UNLV graduate, had also been arrested Jan. 9 for disorderly conduct, according to police. Detective Kevin Youngflesh and Officer James Kettner initially apprehended Fretwell for trespassing but discovered two guns during a routine search of Fretwell's vehicle, according to Youngflesh. When Fretwell was arrested Tuesday, he was found with his shirt off, Youngflesh said, and the arresting officers thought Fretwell might have been under the influence of narcotics.Youngflesh said that prior to Fretwell's first arrest, campus police had received reports that a man fitting his description harassed professors from the chemistry building. The police issued a notice to Fretwell, banning him from campus and released him Tuesday, but then rearrested him near the chemistry building Friday. SEE STALKER PAGE 2 One-third of Millennium Scholars lose eligibility By Aaron Clemens UNLV Rebel Yell Almost one out of every three Millennium Scholars attending UNLV failed to meet the minimum requirements of earning at least 12 credits with -a 2.0 grade point average after the first semester of the program. Students who failed to meet the minimum requirements will be ineligible for the $1,000 per semester. scholarship this spring and will have to pay back funds already received if they want to reenroll in the program. UNLV had the lowest retention rate of Millennium Scholars with 68 percent, or 988 of the SEE SCHOLAR PAGE 8 - - - - - I I ROCKY: . ' , UNLV Jazz Director Rocky Winslow , keeps it laid-back in x ; the classroom